The waqf amendment bill has been in the news a lot over the past few days, for which a committee was set up to consider the bill, creating a stir at a meeting held on Tuesday. Opposition parties protested when Delhi Waqf Board administrator Ashwini Kumar was called to a JPC meeting and as soon as he arrived, members started agitating and shouting slogans.
Now, the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf will visit 5 states in a week and hold meetings with stakeholders. This will be the last visit of the Public Consultation Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024. Accordingly, the joint parliamentary committee’s visit will begin on November 9 from Guwahati, the capital of Assam. Thereafter, on November 11, the committee will visit Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
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Thereafter, the JPC will move to Kolkata, West Bengal and will visit there on November 12. The JPC will then visit Patna, Bihar. Thereafter, he will visit the Joint Parliamentary Committee in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the 13th. This will be the last time the committee comes to hear and understand the status of waqf. After returning from this visit, the committee will meet in Delhi and prepare its final report.
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The JPC will prepare its report by the last week of November and submit it to the winter session of Parliament. Previously, the joint parliamentary committee visited five states in six days. He held meetings for five consecutive days from September 26 to October 1 and met with minority groups in seven states. During this period, the JPC visited Mumbai on September 26, Gujarat the next day on September 27, Hyderabad on September 28, Chennai on September 30 and October 1 Bangalore. At the same time, the committee also held meetings with local ethnic minority councils and other stakeholders.
